CAPITAL´S ACCUMULATION AND “CRISIS OF THE WELFARE STATE”. ELEMENTS FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF ITS DEVELOPMENT DURING THE 20TH CENTURY

Abstract

This article attempts to present some general lines to examine the relationship between the structural crisis of capital that has been developing since the end of the 1970s and the crisis of the so-called Welfare State. The article focuses on the analysis of the historical determinations of the origin of the relationship between both elements to understand its contradictory development up to the present.